The retro cover art to the book-within-Netflix-show Bandersnatch was done by famed sci-fi artist Chris Foss. Here’s the cover art, along with three of his works that most closely resemble the cover.
“Alright, alright. Think of it like this: jump ahead, ten, twenty years, okay, and you’re married. Only your marriage doesn’t have that same energy that it used to have, you know. You start to blame your husband. You start to think about all those guys you’ve met in your life, and what might have happened if you’d picked up with one of them, right? Well, I’m one of those guys. That’s me, you know, so think of this as time travel, from then, to now, to find out what you’re missing out on. See, what this really could be is a gigantic favor to both you and your future husband, to find out that you’re not missing out on anything. I’m just as big a loser as he is, totally unmotivated, totally boring, and you made the right choice, and you’re really happy.”
They were often wild, creative, bizarre, with a healthy dose of bad taste. Music culture, then, still had traces of generational rebellion: the idea was to be edgy and provocative. It’s amazing to see what they could get away with on prime time in those days, but such were the times.
